{"product_id":"twelve-days-that-shook-the-middle-east-origins-of-a-genocide","title":"Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East: Origins of a Genocide by Dr. Marwan Bishara","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An alarming and informative read.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--Booklist, Starred Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A]ny words published which reveal the lies the genocide is based on and the lies denying its actual truths are a minimum requirement for any hope at stopping the imperial juggernaut of death, destruction and wretchedness those engineering the genocide have created. Bishara's work demands a listen; even more importantly, it demands action.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant book by an outstanding veteran journalist who has followed and reported on Israeli politics for decades. Marwan Bishara shows that the path to genocide was not built accidentally but was paved by decades of intentional dehumanization and supremist indoctrination. More than any other book, it expertly probes the political arrogance, structural racism and cultivated cruelty that set the stage for October 7.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Raja Shehadeh, author of \u003cem\u003eWe Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Hard-hitting, compelling, honest. A tragic portrait of the violence that has overtaken the Middle East since 7 October 2023, from genocide in Gaza to wars in Lebanon and Iran, as Israel and the United States combine forces to reshape the region. Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the world today.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Eugene Rogan, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Arabs: A History and The Fall of the Ottomans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Marwan Bishara has written an essential work of contemporary history. He powerfully and meticulously illuminates how decisions made over twelve days in October 2023 set the stage for Israel's genocide in Gaza, as well as the wars against Iran and Lebanon that followed. \u003cem\u003eTwelve Days That Shook the Middle East\u003c\/em\u003e exposes not only a 'fortress of complicity' between Israel and its allies in the West, above all the United States, but a catastrophic moral failure, rooted in the logic of colonial violence and imperial patronage, that has led to unimaginable destruction and horror. Yet Bishara, one of the region's most astute commentators, is driven less by anger than by the dream of 'a day when Palestinians and Jews are united by the hope of a shared future, not divided by the hate of fanatic leaders.' The result is an indispensable contribution to understanding the genocide, to the remembrance of its victims, and to ensuring that it never happens again--to anyone.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Adam Shatz, US Editor, \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Rebel's Clinic: the Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Marwan Bishara has spent most of his distinguished career writing with depth, nuance, and empathy on the United States, the Middle East, and especially the plight of Palestine and Palestinians. In this brilliant book, he explores in detail the twelve days in October 2023 in which Israel set in motion the machinery of genocide against Gaza, unleashing one of the most destructive military campaigns targeting civilians in modern times. Bishara's work shows us that it's both possible and essential to produce politically engaged journalism and analysis that truly matters, without fear or compromise. In this book, he expertly weaves together journalism, deep historical context, and geopolitical analysis to explain how Israel's genocide reshaped the Middle East and our entire world. Bishara reminds us that the best journalism is fearless and uncompromising--and deeply compassionate.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Mohamad Bazzi, director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and journalism professor at New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Marwan Bishara's \u003cem\u003eTwelve Days that Shook the Middle East\u003c\/em\u003e is one of those rare documents you cannot stop reading and yet one minute into reading you need to stop and catch your breath. It is human to want to forget Israel's acts of barefaced savagery, but Marwan Bishara insists that we keep reading, thinking, and witnessing. Genocidal Zionism cannot evade the justice Palestinians demand, and Bishara's words will hold the whole world accountable, until the final reckoning.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Hamid Dabashi, author of \u003cem\u003eAfter Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003eFrom wherever you sit, the story is masked by propaganda and lies. Palestine and Israel at the center. The US, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, the countries of the Arabian peninsula, European nations, China, Russia, all spinning around that conflict like sci-fi planets loosed around a double sun. Marwan Bishara's \u003cem\u003eTwelve Days That Shook the Middle East\u003c\/em\u003e cuts through the fog. It shows how decades of conflict came to be concentrated in these critical moments. It is objective, detailed, and accurate.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Larry Beinhart, novelist and author of \u003cem\u003eWag the Dog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA damning account of how Israel and the US manufactured the case for genocide in Gaza and a devastating regional war in the Middle East, from Tel Aviv to Tehran.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTwelve Days That Shook the Middle East\u003c\/em\u003e, scholar and Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara offers a clear-eyed account of what happened after October 7, 2023, why it happened, and why it matters. Bishara argues that this conflict has always been an asymmetric, anticolonial struggle. The genocide was not a misstep; it was a blueprint unfolding before the world's eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough he covers the entire war, Bishara contends that the first twelve days were enough to expose the core logic of the conflict, to understand the strategic design behind it, and to bear witness to how modern warfare, wrapped in the language of \"security,\" \"self-defense,\" and \"civilization,\" becomes a weapon of dehumanization and destruction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat followed those twelve days--mass killing, mass displacement, famine, and the collapse of humanitarian possibility--was not the fog of war. It was the eerily cold execution of a premeditated strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Marwan Bishara\u003c\/strong\u003e has been the senior political analyst at Al Jazeera English for the past two decades. He has authored three book and written for publications such as \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJerusalem Post\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAl-Hayat\u003c\/em\u003e. He was a visiting academic at St Antony's College, Oxford, and was a lecturer of international relations at the American University of Paris. He splits his time between New York, London, Paris, and Doha.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67856032694557,"sku":"9798888909966","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/5897\/files\/Screenshot2026-10-23at3.32.15pm.png?v=1792783949","url":"https:\/\/www.middleeastbooks.com\/products\/twelve-days-that-shook-the-middle-east-origins-of-a-genocide","provider":"Middle East Books and More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}